My Blog is Six Years Old

Last week, my blog passed it's six year anniversary. My inaugural
post (besides what amounted to a "hello world" test post) was on
asset management. I didn't post again until the 10th of June. Like
many bloggers I got off to a slow start. But June 2002 was a
good month with a number of posts that indicate what was on my mind
then.

People often ask me how to get their traffic up on their blog.
Unfortunately, my experience was atypical. I started early and was
one of the first CIOs to blog (I was the CIO for the State of Utah at
the time). The attention that I got from that is part of what made
blogging such a great experience for me early on and established
habits that carry through to today.

In that time, I've posted 3374 times to this blog. If you consider
that each year has about 250 work days, that works out to a little
more than two posts per workday (2.24 to be exact). That's the real
key, I think. Post consistently and write about things that interest
you. Then whether anyone reads or not, you win because you'll be
better informed by the activity.